Incredible Edible Todmorden

A community-led grow your own initiative that has transformed the way local people engage with food and their public green spaces in Todmorden, a market town in West Yorkshire.

In Todmorden the local community are leading the way in response to the challenges of climate change through a commitment to the production of food by local people for local consumption.

The aim is to make Todmorden self sufficient in vegetables, orchard fruits and eggs by 2018, and ultimately to enable the town to source the majority of staple food locally including meat and dairy.

Read the full case study to find out how they are doing it.

Tags: green infrastructure, public space, cities and towns, neighbourhoods